"I", said the man who told me the story, "I have never been to America. I don't know if there is an America. Probably people only said so not to disappoint Columbus. And if two people talk about America to each other, they still blink at each other today, and almost never say America, they mostly say something meaningless about 'States' or 'over there' or whatever. Probably they tell the people who want to go to America on a plane or a ship the story of Columbus, and then they hide somewhere and come back later and talk about cowboys and skyscrapers, Niagara Falls and Mississipi, New York and San Francisco.

In any case they all talk about it the same way, and they all speak of things that they already knew before the trip. And that's really very suspicious.